Albert Camus Quotes

My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury of our history: Let us rejoice. Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfort-loving Europe and at being faced with cruel truths.

By Albert Camus

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

By Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

By Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

By Albert Camus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

By Albert Camus

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

By Albert Camus

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

By Albert Camus

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

By Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all

By Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

By Albert Camus

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

By Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

By Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

By Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

By Albert Camus

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

By Albert Camus

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer

By Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

By Albert Camus

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

By Albert Camus

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

By Albert Camus

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth

By Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day

By Albert Camus

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

By Albert Camus

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

By Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

By Albert Camus

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

By Albert Camus

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

By Albert Camus

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

By Albert Camus

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

By Albert Camus